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VERB
赞扬，称颂（人、事件或成就）
If a person, event, or achievement is hailed as important or successful, they are praised publicly.
例句
Faulkner has been hailed as the greatest American novelist of his generation...
福克纳被誉为他那一代人中最伟大的美国小说家。
US magazines hailed her as the greatest rock'n'roll singer in the world...
美国杂志把她奉为世界上最伟大的摇滚歌手。
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N-UNCOUNT
雹子;冰雹
Hail consists of small balls of ice that fall like rain from the sky.
例句
...a sharp short-lived storm with heavy hail.
一阵短暂的大雹暴
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VERB
下雹;下冰雹
When it hails, hail falls like rain from the sky.
例句
It started to hail, huge great stones.
开始下雹，而且是很大的雹子。
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N-SING
雹子般的一阵
A hail of things, usually small objects, is a large number of them that hit you at the same time and with great force.
例句
The victim was hit by a hail of bullets...
受害者被一阵弹雨击中。
The riot police were met with a hail of stones and petrol bombs.
防暴警察遭到一阵密集的石块和汽油弹的袭击。
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VERB
（人）生于，来自
Someone who hails from a particular place was born there or lives there.
例句
I hail from Brighton...
我来自布赖顿。
The band hail from Glasgow.
乐团来自格拉斯哥。
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VERB
（人或物）来自
If someone or something hails from a particular background, they come from it.
例句
He hails from an affluent background...
他出身于一个富有的家庭。
This is a film which seems to hail from the hippie era.
这看起来是一部嬉皮士时代的影片。
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VERB
招呼;喊
If you hail someone, you call to them.
例句
Jill saw him and hailed him...
吉尔看到了他，并和他打招呼。
Suddenly, a voice hailed us and there was Miss Quigley.
忽然传来一声招呼，原来是奎格利小姐。
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VERB
招呼，叫（出租车）
If you hail a taxi, you wave at it in order to stop it because you want the driver to take you somewhere.
例句
I hurried away to hail a taxi.
我赶紧去叫出租车。
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CONVENTION
致意;致敬
Hail is used as a word of greeting.
例句
Hail to the new champion Bengali D'Albret.
向新科冠军本·贾利·达阿尔布雷致敬。